SRG Data Object Table

Data Object	Person(s) Assigned	Required User Input	Data Source	Location Stored (stored in Sakai? Retrieved on the fly?)	What's stored in SRG?
Title/metadata for research guide	Susan	Fill in form manually or import from an existing subject guide	Browse research guides in Sakai or research guides stored on library servers (if possible)	Stored in Sakai	Title and metadata
Citation	Jim	Fill-in form to create a citation manually, or complete a search and select a citation from search results, or browse through existing citation lists and select a citation	Varies	stored in CitationService	citation-id
Citation list	Jim	Use filepicker to embed a link to a citation list. This involves either creating a citation list and linking to it or linking to an existing citation list	Filepicker browses items in Sakai's Content Hosting Service	Store a reference to the resource and retrieve when needed	resource-id of Citation list
Searchable database link	Steve	Base URL and qualifiers (whatever is required to reference the source uniquely), Title, Description	Database details stored in Sakai	Search results are dynamic, returned by the target DB, potentially saved in Sakai
Set of links to searchable databases in a particular category	Steve	Category Title and Description, and a list of database links (see above)	Category and database details stored in Sakai	Search results are dynamic, potentially saved in Sakai
Canned search link for Web, database, or library catalog	Gaurav/Susan	SRG author chooses website, database, or library catalog to search SRG author specifies search query (selecting search sources, title/author/keyword/subject/years/etc.) SRG author submits a description of the purpose for this canned search	Website, database, or library catalog to search	Canned search details need to be stored in the SRG	website, database, library catalog URL (connection & query information) SRG might need some way of translating from a standard "canned search" format to connect to various outside data sources complex search query (might be rolled into the URL) description
Constrained search box for Web, database(s), or library catalog	Gaurav/Susan	SRG author chooses website, database, or library catalog to search SRG author specifies search constraints (selecting search sources, title/author/keyword/subject/years/etc.; can the SRG user enter an author/year/etc.?) SRG author submits a description of the purpose for this constrained search (describes the reasons for the constraints) SRG user submits keyword (or other allowed fields)	Website, database, or library catalog to search	Constrained search details need to be stored in the SRG	website, database, library catalog URL (connection & query information) SRG might need some way of translating from a standard "constrained search" format to connect to various outside data sources complex search query (might be rolled into the URL) description
RSS feed	Damian	URL of Feed. (Possibly the number of entries to include in the feed.)	URL of RSS feed.	On the fly	URL of feed
Link to arbitrary URL	Susan	Fill-in URL and link title	Fill in form manually or import from an existing subject guide	Stored in Sakai	URL and title
Link to generic individual ("a librarian")	Ken/Mike
Link to titled individual ("this course's instructor", "subject specialist in biology", etc.)	Ken/Mike
Link to specific individual ("Bill Dueber")	Ken/Mike
Link to location (a library, academic building, office, etc.)	Ken/Mike
Freeform rich text	Susan	Fill-in form	Fill-in manually	Stored in Sakai	Text
Audio file	Damian	Either URL or an Upload/Attatchment	An audio file	If uploaded, stored in Sakai. If a URL, on the fly.
Comment	Susan	Fill-in form	Fill-in manually	Stored in Sakai	Text

Question about data sources

What is meant by "Web, database(s), or library catalog"?

Is it simple enough to just paste a URL? Or, do we need to understand the query structure of an external search engine?

For example

Searching "Bill Dueber" at GoogleScholar produces the URL: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Bill+Dueber&hl=en&lr=&btnG=Search
Searching "Bill Dueber" at Amazon.com produces the URL: http://www.amazon.com/s/105-7815125-7930023?ie=UTF8&tag=mozilla-20&index=blended&link%5Fcode=qs&field-keywords=Bill%20Dueber&sourceid=Mozilla-search
Searching "Google" at LexisNexis (a database that is not searchable through metasearch) produces the URL: http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic/search/homesubmitForm.do

We might be able to assume that the GoogleScholar and Amazon.com links will produce a fresh search each time they are clicked. The LexisNexis link, however, is meaningless.

The assumption for completing the above table is that we cannot use only a URL.